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suspending Zimbabwe from the African Union and sending peacekeepers
to ensure a free election. Mr. Odinga knows whereof he speaks: Like
Mr. Tsvangirai, he led the opposition in December's tainted Kenyan
polls.

Also notable were comments from Senegal's foreign minister, Cheikh
Tidiane Gadio. Africans insist that the West should "leave us alone
and [that] we be left to decide our own destinies," he said, but at
the moment of crisis "we don't want to talk about it. That doesn't
make any sense." Senegal is one of Africa's more democratic
countries. The tragedy is that there aren't more African leaders
willing to stand up against a tyrant who is bringing such shame to
their continent.


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     WALTER LIPPMANN
     Los Angeles, California
     Editor-in-Chief, CubaNews
     http://groups.yahoo.com/group/CubaNews/
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